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At the beginning of next week, Technorati will launch a new tag aggregation feature: When you search on a tag, you'll be shown a list of "related" tags. The relationships are automatically discerned by the software, analyzing the other tags used by people tagging the same set of pages and photos. Dave Sifry let me play with a beta of it, and the suggested tags were generally quite relevant. There are two types of relationships the "related" tags help with. First, they suggest slightly divergent topics so you can browse off the path you were heading down. Second, they help get over the problem that people use different words to flag the same ideas; the "related" tags can help you find more sources that are directly on the path you were heading down. So they help with both digression and focus. [See my disclosure statement.] [Technorati tags: technorati tags taxonomy] Posted
by D. Weinberger at March 5, 2005 12:41 PM
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» Technorati to Provide Folksonomy Tuning from e-Literate According to David Weinberger, Technorati is about to add a folksonomy tuning feature that shows related tags, making closely related content more findable. This is the kind of thing we need to make folksonomies be useful as more than just fun toys.... [Read More]Tracked on March 6, 2005 11:37 AM |
Comments
Taggregation! Sweet, even if it *didn't* sound so nice!
Posted by: Erica | March 7, 2005 04:00 PM
I like to include Technorati tags in my blog entries, but creating them by hand is a pain, and I really don't want to create a category for every tag I wish to include, so I wrote this little javascript hack to make it a little easier on me.
Just enter tags separated by spaces, and click on 'Generate Tags'. The tag markup will be generated below the link, and in contained within a defined by a class called 'folksonomies'.
Tagnorati: Technorati Tag Generator
Posted by: Mike | March 10, 2005 02:15 PM